Lead– High Risk Issue Validation and Issue Governance & Oversight

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the worlds most successful individuals families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service expertise and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

RiskBased Issue Validation Execution
Own and execute riskbased validation for highrisk issues including defining validation scope test strategy sample approach and acceptance criteria. Perform walkthroughs inquiries evidence inspection and where needed reperformance testing to confirm remediation effectiveness.

Validation Readiness and Artifact Review
Drive validation readiness by confirming required remediation artifacts exist including updated control design procedures monitoring operational evidence and sustainability mechanisms.

Validation Outcomes and Feedback
Where validation fails return the issue to the appropriate stage and provide clear feedback on identified gaps and documentation expectations.

Issue Quality and Risk Assessment
Assess issue statements root cause risk impacts control objectives and linkage to applicable requirements. Challenge issue quality to ensure completeness consistency and audit defensibility.

Remediation Sustainability Assessment
Ensure remediation plans are riskaligned and sustainable including compensating controls and interim risk reduction steps where applicable.

Issue Oversight & Governance
Manage and oversee the Technology Issue Management program including endtoend issue lifecycle execution governance and stakeholder engagement. This includes coordinating issue review forums validating highrisk issues overseeing risk acceptance decisions tracking actions to closure and delivering clear consistent status reporting to leadership.

Continuously assess the effectiveness and maturity of issue management processes using metrics and risk insights to identify improvement opportunities and drive sustainable process enhancements.

Serve as the primary point of accountability and representation for the Technology Issue Management program partnering with stakeholders to support integration adoption and potential expansion of program scope and tooling.

Provide trusted risk and control advisory support by facilitating governance committees working groups and stakeholder forums ensuring appropriate oversight challenge and escalation of material risk issues.

Collaborate closely with Second Line of Defense partners to align on issue management expectations aggregated risk measurement and thematic risk analysis and take action to address identified control gaps or emerging risk trends.

Influence behaviors across the enterprise to strengthen technology risk ownership reduce residual risk and reinforce a strong sustainable risk management culture.

Stakeholder Partnership and Escalation
Partner with Issue Owners SMEs and Audit Compliance and Risk stakeholders to align on closure criteria resolve disputes on evidence sufficiency and ensure timely decisions and escalations.

Reporting and Thematic Analysis
Provide regular reporting on the validation pipeline issue aging bottlenecks and recurring failure modes. Identify themes and systemic control weaknesses and recommend improvements.

Knowledge and Experience

812 years of experience in one or more of the following: Technology Risk Management Cybersecurity Risk & Controls IT Audit Technology Control Testing or Assurance or Issue Management and Remediation Oversight

Demonstrated experience leading validation and testing of remediation outcomes including designing test approaches and documenting results in an auditdefensible manner

Strong knowledge of control and risk frameworks and security domains (e.g. vulnerability and threat management IAM data protection application security network and system security)

Experience working in a regulated environment and engaging with audit and regulatory stakeholders on issue closure and supporting evidence

Preferred industry certifications: CISA CISSP or CRISC

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

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About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office established in 2016 is now home to over 3000 employees. The office handles various functions including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.

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